Goalie “Salavat Yulaev » Alexander Samonov said he did not get enough rest before the start of the Fonbet KHL Championship playoffs.
Salavat Yulaev lost to Chelyabinsk Traktor in the first round of the Gagarin Cup with a score of 2-4.
— Viktor Kozlov admitted that he should have given you more rest. Do you agree with him?
“I was fine, the only thing is maybe before the playoffs I should have let myself breathe a little more.” Now that I analyze it, maybe I should have paused more and taken it calmly. And it’s a good rhythm, I like everything.
— Is rest before the playoffs to overcome burnout from workload?
“Just reboot, get away from there, clear your head.” Even if you are a substitute, you are still preparing for the game. Anything can happen in life, but in a game anything can happen. It’s clear that it’s up to the technical staff to decide, but maybe in a good way we had to get away from hockey a little, to miss it. Taking a mini-break somewhere, maybe I didn’t have enough.
But everything that happened in the playoffs remains on my conscience. I didn’t play well in the knockout matches.
—Did you discuss the need for rest before the playoffs with Kozlov after the season?
“There hasn’t been a big conversation on this topic, but, probably, the coaching staff and I understand it now. I had to express this specifically, and that’s it. But I was raised like that, they tell me: you play, I play. I’m not crying, nothing. They let me play and I play.
– But you are already an experienced goalkeeper, this is not your first year in the championship, you can already start expressing your opinion.
– Yes, probably, somewhere we should have pushed harder, and everything could have turned out differently for us. But in any case, it is also an experience. Next time we will be smarter,” Samonov said in “Championship.”
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